Shock Absorbing Concrete, or SACON®, is an engineered concrete and development process to manufacture specialty foam filled concrete blocks and structures. SACON is ideal for military and certain law enforcement applications that require extensive ballistic protection with a Class A fire resistance in a small footprint. While most commonly deployed in military live fire shoot house configurations due to SACON’s superior performance in grenade and incendiary environments, SACON is also ideally suited for perimeter containment of outdoor range berms, or as a shooting range backstop toe wall to minimize the overall footprint of the firing range bullet trap.

SACON is prepared using conventional mixers, foaming machines and Portland cement. It is approx 75% of the weight of standard 3K PSI concrete. It contains no coarse aggregate and uses a fiber for additional bonding and strength. Construction / fabrication techniques used to make Shock Absorbing Concrete are similar to conventional concrete for molding precast blocks and panels or forming cast-in-place product volumes.

Upon impact the entrained air cells collapse to absorb the incoming projectile. SACON utilizes a concrete alkaline environment that minimizes, and can even prevent, lead leaching. SACON has numerous features and benefits that are outlined below.